Amber Heard returned to Attack of the Show a few days ago (estimated May 25, 2011) to talk about The Ward, her new horror film set in a haunted psychiatric ward during the 1960′s. She talks about working with iconic horror director John Carpenter and more. Screencaps to come shortly.

A handful of new stills from The Ward were released to Dread Central.

John Carpenter’s The Ward will be available on VOD on June 8th, 2011, and in theatres July 8th, 2011. Lyndsy Fonseca, Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, and Jared Harris star.

According to Dread Central, John Carpenter’s The Ward will be available on VOD on June 8, 2011, and in North American theatres July 8, 2011. Amber Heard, Lyndsy Fonseca, Danielle Panabaker, and Jared Harris star.

The gallery has been updated with several new The Ward stills featuring Amber Heard, which were sent in by the awesome Fredy of Danielle Panabaker Source.

A region-free Blu-ray and Region 2 DVD of the film will be released on May 16, 2011. You may pre-order your copy over at Amazon.co.uk!

The Ward will see a limited US release this summer, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on August 2, 2011.

Many thanks again to Fredy for The Ward stills and release scoop!

While there is yet to be a U.S. release date, the opening credits have leaked online for John Carpenter’s return to feature-length horror, The Ward, which premiered at last September’s TIFF.

“The story follows a girl (Amber Heard) who is admitted to a psychiatric ward, meets other girls there with distinct personalities and discovers a mysterious girl haunting the halls at night.”

There’s news coming in from Berlin and the 2011 European Film Market, and this is some of the best we’ve heard in a while. John Carpenter’s The Ward finally has Stateside distro!

Per Deadline London on this Day 3 of the EFM ARC Entertainment and XLrator Media Partnership have taken U.S. rights to John Carpenter’s The Ward, the cult director’s first feature since the late 90s. Amber Heard (Drive Angry 3D), Mamie Gummer (Off the Map), and Danielle Panabaker (Friday the 13th) star in this shocker set in a 60s mental institution terrorised by malevolent forces. Doug Mankoff, Andrew Spaulding of Echo Lake Entertainment (Tsotsi) produce along with Peter Block of A Bigger Boat.

The Ward is an intense psychological thriller set in a mental institution where a young woman, Kristen, is haunted by a mysterious and deadly ghost. As danger creeps closer, she comes to realize that this ghost might be darker than she could have imagined.

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A rather bland effort at the one sheet for The Ward also made its debut today, in addition to the UK trailer posted earlier, check it out in the gallery.

Currently no US distributor has been set for the film, but the UK will receive John Carpenter’s return to feature-length horror on January 21st, 2011.

John Carpenter’s The Ward, a psychological thriller about a young woman locked in a mysterious mental institution in the 1960s, marks iconic horror master John Carpenter’s first feature film in over seven years.

Kristen (Amber Heard), a beautiful but troubled young woman, finds herself bruised, cut, drugged, and held against her will in a remote ward of a psychiatric hospital. She is completely disoriented, with no idea why she was brought to this place and no memory of her life before being admitted. All she knows is that she isn’t safe.

The other patients in the ward—four equally disturbed young women—offer no answers, and Kristen quickly realizes things are not as they seem. The air is heavy with secrets, and at night, when the hospital is dark and foreboding, she hears strange and frightening sounds. It appears they are not alone.

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